General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Tommy, yes but I was a child at the time, so more interested in having my yed stuck out of the window (remember when you could do that, in spite of the warning not to) to observe the many long coal trains to be seen at that time.

Prof Eric Laithwaite was at this time still based in Manchester, before he had transited to Imperial College, and a bit of the old Gorton Works saw the very first ever Maglev test strip. (An acquaintance of mine insists it was Reddish : so one of us is right and tuther wrong)